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<sect2>
<title>Installation of Coreutils</title>
+<para>Apply the same "Posixver" patch we used previously:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&coreutils-posixver-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Normally the functionality of <userinput>uname</userinput> is somewhat
broken, in that the <userinput>-p</userinput> switch always returns "unknown".
The following patch fixes this behaviour for Intel architectures:</para>